Stencil-palette



UNTTED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

J. H. MERRIAM, OF BOSTON,*MASSACHUSETTS.

STENCIL-PALETTE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 19,943, dated April 13, 1858'.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOSEPH MERRIAM, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Palette for Stencil-Markers or for Painters Use; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l, is a side view, Fig. 2, a top view, and Fig. 3, a transverse section o-f such invention.

F or spreading ink or paint or preparing a brush with the requisite amount of such for marking by a stencil plate it has been customary to make use of a flat piece of board or palette or plate of tin or other suitable metal. On this a few drops or a small quantity of the liquid ink or paint is thrown. and with the marking brush it is rubbed and spread over the surface of the board or palette until a suflicient quantity has been taken up in the brush to enable it to be rubbed over the stencil plate. Under such circumstances the paint or liquid has been taken from a vessel entirely separate from the palette, board or slab.

The nature of my invent-ion consists in a combination of a flexible slab 0r palette, a vessel or reservoir for holding the ink or paint and a pipe or its equivalent, so applied to the slab or palette and made toextend into the reservoir, that on pressure being made on the outer surface of the palette or slab or any elastic or flexible part o-f it, ink or paint may be forced from t-he reservoir through the tube and upon the outer surface of the palette or slab. Thus in case, a stencil marker is desirous of increasing the supply of ink or paint on his palet-te, he has only` to press with his brush on the palette, in which case, the flexible palette acting on the air within the vessel or reservoir, will cause such to press on the surface of the liquid so as to produce an escape out of the reservoir and upon the palette, of a portion of the liquid contents of the reservoir. By my invention, the liquid in the reservoir is prevented from evaporation, and even should the palette be overturned, little or none of the liquid will be spilled out of it.

yIn the drawings, a, a, exhibits a flat flexible or elastic plate made of tinned iron or other suitable material and forming the top of a shallow reservoir, b, which if desirable may be provided with a handle, c. Such reservoir should have a filling hole or mouth, d, furnished with a stopper, e, which may screw into it or be otherwise applied so as to lit closely and air tight. At the middle part of the palette or plate a, and extending down within the reservoir, is a small tube f,

which is, at one end, fastened to the flexible plate, and terminates at its lower end, at a short distance above the bottom of the reser Voir, the tube being open at both ends and through the slab or palette, a. A helical spring, g, may surround the tube and extend from the bottom to the top of the reservoir, and so as to aid in restoring the plate to its normal position after pressure has been made on it.

The flexible palette combined with the reservoir and the pneumatic pressure tube renders my invention of great convenience and utility to painters as well as to stencil markers.

I am aware that an inkstand has been made with a cup and reservoir combined with a pneumatic tube and a flexible or elastic diaphragm so arranged that on pressing the cup and tube downward, the ink or liquid of the reservoir would be caused to flow upward into the cup. This however, although somewhatanalogous to my invention, I do not claim, as it differs materially therefrom, inasmuch as the latter containing a flat slab or flexible palette suitable for preparing the brush for the stencil plate, whereas, no such device is found in the inkstand. The two' inventions belong to separate branches of art.

What I do claim as my invention, or as a new manufacture, is- A A stencil markers palette or pot constructed substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature.

JOS. H. MERRIAM. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. u n i, 

